Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for March 16, 2023

Little patient zeros they are.

My grandkids are good at that…except when they aren’t jumping me into their gang pummeling me with pillows.

And unwillingly?

My dad used to say, “He is so stingy that the only thing he gives out is his breath and he draws that right back in again”.

After my own childhood, my children and my grandchildren, and a military shot record tht weighs a pound and a half, I have probably been exposed to every pathogen know to medical science. If I’m not immune to it by now, it doesn’t exist yet.

Once upon a time it was said that childhood recoveries from exposures in the classroom and on playgrounds helped build immunities for later in life. Same for allowing a kid to play in the neighborhood [depending on where it was located.] Nowadays, it seems that trying to make everything sterile to reach that stage is having the reverse effect. Seems to leave people open to infections with more disastrous outcomes.

Those early days also taught some of us that scratches were ignored and got soap and water when we went home, that bleeders got mercurochrome and a bandaid , and that shallow cuts got iodine and a wrap. We also usually got a hug and a pat and were told that if we just went on about our daily routines without making a big fuss, we’d would get over whatever it was. Worked for me and a lotta folks. Doesn’t seem to work like than nowadays.

Like most kids!

They ALL do, believe me….

Well, of course. Misery loves company.